Much like exploration geologists, university-based historians do much of their field research in the summer months. Limited more by the demands of […]
Credit: Adobe Stock Many asset owners face a choice that looks simple: continue operating aging coal-fired generating stations or begin planning for […]
In early May, New York-based Alcoa Inc. made a hostile bid for Montreal-based Alcan Inc. The deal that Alcoa offered--US$73.25 per Alcan share to be paid in cash and Alcoa shares--has an enterprise va...
Carhartt, Inc.'s workwear is now available in fits and sizes designed especially for women. The new Carhartt for Women line of clothes and accessories was tested in fall 2006 at 150 retailers, and b...
What's hot (and missing) in coal
Looking through Stone: Poems about the Earth by Susan Ioannou
President of Evolving Gold Corp., Lawrence A. Dick, had struggled for years with this conundrum: How does a geologist balance running a public company with finding ore?
Mineral Exploration Roundup 2007 "Leading the World in Exploration" was another exceptional event, with attendance exceeding expectations. The atmosphere in the conference halls of the Westin Bayshore...
Three mines opened in the province last year: the Trend and Wolverine-Perry Creek coal mines and the Table Mountain gold mine. At the end of 2006 there were more than 25 project submissions to governm...
Vancouver-based BioteQ Environmental Technologies Inc. is establishing itself as a leader in the treatment of acid-contaminated water through the use of its patented BioSulphide process and the ChemS...
A new hard rock mine is about to start production in Yukon, the first to open in a decade. Sherwood Copper's Minto copper-gold mine is the talk of the town because it's the most imminent. However, if ...
Vancouver-based New Gold Inc. announced in early April the results of a feasibility study conducted on its 100%-owned New Afton copper-gold project, 10 km west of Kamloops in south-central British Col...
Today's much improved commodity market means many deposits that languished during the 1990s are being examined again. One of these is Mt. Milligan, in north-central British Columbia 155 km northwest o...
